Word: synthesiser
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Sir: The emphasis on environmental problems by our communications media signals the arrival of a fashionable new issue-one without political allegiance which everybody can embrace. But how long does an issue last? The example of gun control, after Robert Kennedy's assassination, shows how important issues can be...
ARTISTIC yearning fell before the urge "to know and understand" the forces of societal change. A synthesis began to emerge from what he called his internal dialectic. There were always two urges in him during these radical years: learning and fighting politically. Becoming a sociologist brought the discrete arts of...
"We like the blessings of central government," writes the new Publius. "We also like the blessing of decentralization, or home rule. Many have spent the past year working out a synthesis of the most desirable in both central government and home rule. The purpose [of the new federalism] is to...
It is often said that the Yugoslav system of worker self-management is a special Third Way in the world. But there is really no philosophy to guide the students. Marx and Lenin are not sufficient, and Marcuse does not quite fit. Students are beginning to say that their brand...
Mao fancies himself the champion of Marxist purity, combatting the "revisionist" heresies of Moscow and Belgrade. Yet his expositions of dialectics are sometimes primitive, to say the least. In a speech in Hangchow in 1965, Mao tried to explain the complex Hegelian-Marxist concept of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" by explaining...